self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
If we don’t know how to mourn and rebuild, we are incentivized to keep the storms of our lives raging indefinitely.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Heidi Priebe • Tweet
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
The late eighteenth-century Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches us, “If you want to return to God you must make yourself into a new creation. You can do this with a sigh.”9
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
—JH Newman
—JH Newman
Luke Burgis • Tweet
Old paradigms die hard. Puking, sweating, convulsing every vestige of What No Longer Works into a heaping pile of shitty compost that will eventually grow something new and beautiful, but not until you’re scraped raw of every notion of what that might be.
McCall Erickson on Substack
A leading indicator of personal growth is how curious you are able to be with all your emotions - especially the ones you weren't allowed to feel as a kid.